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VUHS MUSIC TEACHER Sue O’Daniel directs the VUHS Symphonic Band. O’Daniel is retiring after 42 years leading the school’s music program. She is credited with creating a love of music in generations of students there and bringing music to the wider community.
Photo courtesy of Phil Gramling

VERGENNES — A twist of fate in the summer of ’78 led to Sue O’Daniel’s 42-year career as the Vergennes Union High School music teacher.

A CREW OF volunteers made up of parents and firefighters from the Pittsford and Brandon got up early on Sunday to hang banners featuring OV graduating seniors along Route 7 from Pittsford to Leicester.

BRANDON — It will take longer, and there won’t be any hugging or handshaking as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but Otter Valley Union High School seniors will have a graduation this year.

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Tara (right) and VUHS senior Addie Brooks were among the organizers of a parade to honor the school’s Class of 2020. It is planned for the evening of June 12, immediately after the abbreviated VUHS graduation ceremony.
Photo courtesy of Tara Brooks

VERGENNES — Organizers are working on a parade that will carry the Vergennes Union High School Class of 2020 through many Vergennes neighborhoods after their abbreviated graduation ceremony on Frid

DON’T COMPOST THAT carrot top! If you put it in water you can grow a new carrot. Read about it and ways you can grow other veggies from scraps in the “Make it Together – Kitchen Garden” section in this story.

Feel some gratitude. Salisbury Community School students have written words of gratitude on pieces of fabric and attached then to the fence outside the school.

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